945N/AAPACHE 2.0 STATUS: -*-text-*-
945N/ALast modified at [$Date: 2000/12/22 22:44:45 $]
945N/A 2.0b1 : Scheduled to release December 26, 2000
945N/A rbb volunteers to be RM
945N/A 2.0a9 : released December 12, 2000
945N/A 2.0a8 : released November 20, 2000
945N/A 2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000
945N/A 2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000
945N/A 2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000
945N/A 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000
945N/A 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000
945N/A 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000
945N/A 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000
945N/A Status: patch brought forward from 1.3.14
945N/A WIN32 and OS2 need review [William Rowe, Brian Harvard]
945N/A * Error messages are filtered according to the needs of the original
945N/A URI. Nothing ensures that they are translated on EBCDIC machines
945N/A and *not* translated on ASCII machines.
945N/A * Win32: Enable the Windows MPM to honor max_requests_per_child
945N/A Status: Bill will fix this.
945N/A * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work
945N/A (at least) needs to be done:
945N/A - winnt MPM: Fix 95/98 code paths in the winnt MPM. There is some NT
945N/A specific code that is still not in NT only code paths
945N/A - IOL binds to APR sendfile, implemented with TransmitFile, which
945N/A is not available on 95/98.
945N/A - Document warning that OSR2 is required (for Crypt functions, in
1058N/A * Win32: Test access logging with multiple threads. Will the
945N/A native file I/O calls serialize automagically like the
945N/A CRT calls or do we need to add region locking each time
945N/A * Win32: Complete the revamp the service environment and relocation
945N/A into the WinNT MPM. Changes ServerRoot service registry
945N/A parameter into ConfigArgs for multiple service startup parameters.
945N/A signals are not being acknowledged. Close window and shutdown
945N/A also seem out of sorts.
945N/A OtherBill is working on this
945N/A * We need a thread-safe resolver, at least on Unix.
1058N/A Status: The best known candidate would be something from
945N/A Status: Greg asks, "why? doesn't gethostbyname_r() handle this?"
945N/A * The AddInputFilter and AddOutputFilter directives do not allow the
945N/A administrator to remove or reorder filters. Once a filter is added
945N/A in a container, it is present in any subcontainers. It can only be
945N/A added to the filter chain after any filters specified in enclosing
945N/A would be surprised if it works.
945N/A * remove the --disable-shared from the subdir config of APR(UTIL)
945N/A before the final release. (in fact, it might even be nice to
945N/ARELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
945N/A * The directives to setup output filters need to be re-visited. These
945N/A directives aren't consistent with what we already have, and they don't
945N/A always make good sense.
945N/A Status: rbb volunteers.
945N/A * FreeBSD has issues when sendfile is used. Some images aren't sent
945N/A completely. The work around is to turn off sendfile support.
945N/A * release distros do not include a "test" dir. It should be
945N/A cleaned for the dev guys. (Greg volunteers)
945N/A * Create unified scoreboard API and implementation shared across
945N/A * Document mod_file_cache.
945N/A * OS/2: Get loadable modules working again. Requires shared core support
945N/A which doesn't appear to be catered for in the current build system.
945N/A * OS/2: Make mod_status work for spmt_os2 MPM.
945N/A * Win32: Enable the winnt MPM to use the new scoreboard API
945N/A * Win32: Win9x console window still won't play nice with the
945N/A close window, logoff and shutdown scenarios.
945N/A * Win32: Add a simple hold console open patch (wait for close or
945N/A the ESC key, with a nice message) if the server died a bad
945N/A death (non-zero exit code) in console mode.
945N/A * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
945N/A Architect start-up code that avoids initializing all the modules
945N/A in the parent process on platforms that do not support fork.
945N/A would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially
945N/A duplicates what is in APR.
945N/A * There are still a number of places in the code where we are
945N/A losing error status (
i.e. throwing away the error returned by a
945N/A system call and replacing it with a generic error code)
945N/A * Win32: Implement reliable piped logs on Windows
945N/A * The connection status table is not very efficient. Also, very few stats
945N/A are exported to the connection status table (easy to fix), and mod_status
945N/A * Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.
945N/A * Replace tables with a proper opaque ADT that has pluggable
945N/A implementations (including something like the existing data type,
945N/A plus hash tables for speed, with options for more later).
945N/A Status: fanf is working on this.
945N/A [ gjs: still? really? ]
945N/A the dbmmanage employs the first-matched dbm format. This is not
945N/A necessarily the library that Apache was built with. Aught to
945N/A rewrite dbmmanage upon installation to bin/ with the proper library
945N/A * use apu_dbm in mod_auth_dbm
945N/A Status: Greg +1 (low-priority volunteer)
945N/A Some additional items remaining:
945N/A - case_preserved_filename stuff
945N/A (use the new canonical name stuff?)
945N/A - find a new home for ap_text(_header)
945N/A - is it possible to remove the DAV: namespace stuff from util_xml?
945N/A * ap_core_translate() and its use by mod_mmap_static and mod_file_cache
1058N/A are a bit wonky. The function should probably be exposed as a utility
945N/A function (such as ap_translate_url2fs() or ap_validate_fs_url() or
945N/A something). Another approach would be a new hook phase after
945N/A "translate" which would allow the module to munge what the
945N/A translation has decided to do.
945N/A Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Ryan +1
945N/A calls ap_fixup_virutal_hosts(), ap_fini_vhost_config(), and
945N/A ap_sort_hooks() [to reduce the logic in main()]
945N/A * read the config tree just once, and process N times (as necessary)
1058N/A * add a version number to ap_initialize() as an extra failsafe against
1058N/A (APR) library version skew.
1058N/A MsgID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005231712380.31927-100000@nebula.lyra.org>
1058N/A Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Jeff +1, Ryan +1, Tony -0(?)
1058N/A * mod_info to use the configuration tree
1058N/A * (possibly) use UUIDs in mod_unique_id
and/or mod_usertrack
945N/A * (possibly) port the bug fix for PR 6942 (segv when LoadModule is put
945N/A into a VirtualHost container) to 2.0.
945N/A * the LTFLAGS = -export-dynamic in the
config.m4 is wrong. it is getting
945N/A added multiple times during the config process. The -export-dynamic
945N/A building Apache modules).
945N/A * toss the AddModule directive. we add all prelinked modules
945N/A automatically, and the LoadModule directive now implies
945N/A AddModule. so... there is no point to it any more.
945N/APRs that have been suspended forever waiting for someone to
945N/Aput them into 'the next release':
945N/A missing call to "setlocale();"
945N/A Additional status for XBitHack directive
945N/A Questionable performace of mod_dir() with negotiation
945N/A Mod_proxy doesn't allow change of error pages
945N/A Modified PATH environemnt variable is not passed, instead
945N/A Proxy doesn't deliver documents if not connected
945N/A proxy converts ~name to %7Ename when name starts with a dot (.)
945N/A mod_access syntax allows hosts that should be restricted
945N/A ~UserHome directories are not honored in absolute pathname
945N/A More LogFormat directives
945N/A Proxy FTP Authentication Fails
945N/A A smarter "Last Modified" value for SSI documents (see PR number 600)
945N/A Request of "Options SymLinksIfGroupMatch"
945N/A A security tweak I've been using for a few years for SSI
945N/A Proxy doesn't do links right for OpenVMS files through ftp:
945N/A imap should read <MAP><AREA>*</MAP> too!
945N/A RLimitCPU and RLimitMEM don't apply to all children like they should
945N/A Uses cwd before filling it in, doesn't use syslog
945N/A it is useful to allow specifiction that root-owned symlinks
945N/A should always be followed
945N/A Controlling Access to Remote Proxies would be nice...
945N/A Adding authentication "on the fly" through the proxy module
945N/A request_config field in request_rec is moderately bogus
945N/A DoS attacks involving memory consumption
945N/A Logging of virtual server to error_log as well
945N/A ProxyRemote make a dead cycle.
945N/A * PR#1117: mod_auth-any
945N/A suexec does not parse arguments to #exec cmd
945N/A Allow for Last-Modified: without resorting to XBitHack
945N/A insufficent AllowOverrides granularity for autoindexing
945N/A improvements to child spawning API
945N/A ``nph-'' not honored (no buffering) for ProxyRemote mapping
945N/A Apache cannot handle continuation line in headers
945N/A setlogin() is not called, causing problems with
e.g. identd
945N/A regerror() exists, use it
945N/A there is no way to keep per-connection per-module state
945N/A Add frame-safe anchor attribute to mod_autoindex links
945N/A CGI scripts running as Apache user: security (suexec etc.)
945N/A Need to know "hit-rate" on proxy cache
945N/A Selective url-encode of log fields (or maybe a pseudo
945N/A I make mod_headers to modify request headers as well as
945N/A No HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR set...
945N/A ProxyRemote proxy requests fail authentication by firewall
945N/A * PR#1574: mod_autoindex
945N/A ReadmeName and HeaderName don't allow for server-parsed html.
945N/A mod_rewrite forms REQUEST_URI different than mod_cgi does
945N/A mod_headers should allow mod_log_config-style formats in
945N/A mod_proxy to support persistent conns?
945N/A patches to mod_include to allow for file tests
945N/A * PR#1809: mod_auth-any
945N/A Suggestion for improving authentication modules and core source
945N/A code, problem with 401 and ErrorDocument
945N/A * PR#1855: mod_autoindex
945N/A More Control over autoindex layout
945N/A listing of proxy cache content
945N/A Allow modules to set user:group for execution.
945N/A adding auth_why to conn_rec
945N/A pipelined connections are not logged correctly
945N/A mod_rewrite doesn't pass Proxy Throughput on internal subrequests
945N/A HTTP Server Rebuild Line Needs Changing for the better
945N/A mod_status always displays 256 possible connection slots
945N/A * PR#2221: documentation
945N/A Make online documentation search link back to my installation
945N/A Can not POST to ErrorDocument - Apache/1.3b6
945N/A patterns in ProxyRemote
945N/A Status module averages are for entire uptime
945N/A suexec for general access of user content?
945N/A Proposal for TimeZone directive
945N/A /server-info doesn't check for the virtual host to list the info
945N/A problem specifying ndbm library for build ?with autoconfigure
945N/A AllowOverride FileInfo is too coarse
945N/A TimeOut applies to output of CGI scripts
945N/A <IfDenied> directive wanted
945N/A CGI's for general use still have to be run as another user
945N/A Cache file names in Proxy module
945N/A in global and <Virtual>.
945N/A mailto tags and bundling bug report script
945N/A Support for System Resource Controller
945N/A When will Apache support P3P? Any Plans?
945N/A Propose that Apache recommend $UNIQUE_ID for all "session id"
945N/A suggestion: power up your Include directive :)
945N/A cannot limit some HTTP methods
945N/A * PR#3026: mod_autoindex
945N/A No module specific data hook for per-connection data
945N/A Configuration file in Japanese
945N/A * PR#3191: mod_negotiation
945N/A no way to set global quality-of-source (qs) coneg values
945N/A * PR#3430: mod_negotiation
1058N/A Enhancement: MultiViews, Multi-Language Documents
945N/A Accessing URL through proxy server corrupts data.
945N/A Please add an Apache icon to the systray instead of a DOS window
945N/A Some anonymous FTP URLs ask for authentication
945N/A * PR#3654: mod_autoindex
945N/A BORDER=0 makes Icons look nicer (FancyIndexing)
945N/A New ErrorDocumentMatch directive
1058N/A Alternative for win95 users
1058N/A Need to be able to override shebang line to make CGI scripts
1058N/A "Files" and "FilesMatch" regexp does not recognize bang as
1058N/A Please allow CGI env variables (QUERY_STRING, ...) to be logged
1058N/A Suggestion for better handling of Last-modified headers
1058N/A mod_cgi prevents handling of OPTIONS requests
1058N/A mod_autoindex does not generate Last-Modified response headers
1058N/A The output of CGI scripts appears in the window that apache
1058N/A [PATCH] install as service with domain account
1059N/A AllowOverride should have a 'CheckNone' and 'AllowNone' argument
945N/A Status: Waiting for IANA types to be defined
945N/AOther bugs that need fixing:
945N/A * MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.
945N/A Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it
945N/A "MaxConnectionsPerChild".
945N/A * Regex containers don't work in an intutive way
945N/A Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this
945N/A behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers
945N/A * SIGSEGV on Linux (glibc 2.1.2) isn't caught properly by a
945N/A sigwaiting thread. We need to work around this, perhaps unless
945N/A there is hope soon for a fixed glibc.
945N/A * The MM library is built as static and shared library. This should
945N/A be set up to build only the required version.
945N/AOther features that need writing:
945N/A * Finish infrastructure in core for async MPMs
945N/A * TODO in source -- just do an egrep on "TODO" and see what's there
945N/ADocumentation that needs writing:
945N/A * Mod_status docs are needed.
945N/A * The concept of MPMs, especially if we ship more than one MPM for a
945N/A * New directives in the various MPMs and appropriate links from
obsolete directives in
core.html to the MPM documentation.
Status: Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation
* Changes since 1.3.9 can be more easily seen in the commitlog file
which includes some of Roy's comments when the changes were
committed in rough change-sets by purpose. Note that the commitlog
does not show the contents of new files until later.
* Jon Travis's <jtravis@covalent.net> patch to deal with thread-safe
issues with inet_ntoa. See message <20001201163220.A12827@covalent.net>
Status: This is being set aside until the IPv6 work is finished
so that we know exactly what is required.
* Martin Sojka <msojka@gmx.de>'s patch to add error reporting for failed
htpasswd actions due to a full /tmp volume (other programs may have
* Mike Abbott's <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com> patches to improve
Status: These were written for 1.3, and are awaiting a port to
* Jim Winstead's <jimw@trainedmonkey.com> patch to add CookieDomain and
other small mod_usertrack features
* Dan Rench's <drench@xnet.com> patch to add allow the errmsg and timefmt
of SSI's to be modified in the config file. Patch is available in
* What do we do about mod_proxy?
* Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?